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Teia held up four fingers, five fingers, shrugged Co forward, his tall, uards on the trail as if certain death wasn’t beckoning at the slightest wrong step He careen luxin rope Behind hiuards because she was shorter, came the smallest of their nuht Ironfist helped Fell wrap the rope tightly around her waist, then threw the ends of the rope down the rest of the line Everyone grabbed the rope except for the two Blackguards irabbed on to his belt It was as if they were able to co a word
Conal when they’re directly above us"
Teia squared her shoulders, pulled the hat down in front of her eyes, and tried to reait She rounded the corner, walking quickly, butsure her feet ider apart than usual to minimize the motion of her hips She kept her head down, held her shoulders tight, as if they were bigger andout to sea totoward her
"Arvad!" one of theup early?"
Teia bobbed her head up toward the a o for an easy tenor, and keep it short "Rogue wave! Was knocked off the dock! He’s hurt!" She pointed a hand doard the dock, standing close enough to the edge that the Blackguards could see her hand With her fingers and thuers in to point with her index finger alone Plus one Six
She gestured for the soldiers to follow her before they could ask ot to the corner and pointed again to the dock, her arm outstretched Then as the soldiers cauards, Teia dropped her ar soldiers weren’t fifteen feet away frouards Ironfist turned his back to the wall, his feet pointing out, and Fell stood in front of hi hands wrapped around her hips
After a quick count, Ironfist flung Fell up into the air and she landed with her feet in his hands at shoulder level, then he pressed straight above his head Blue luxin blazed out froreen rope out over the abyss, but still she shot out reen rope allowed her to push back and back, and Ironfist leaned out and out to be able to continue holding her feet, his body going diagonal to the trail, held only by the tension of the green rope and the twoon to his belt
Fell didn’t try to blast each of the men with luxin spears or ainst the wall behind them, and merely made it so thick that there was no space to stand on the trail It nudged the to hold on to, it didn’t take uards Only one gave so ed to his death But that nearest reen luxin rope as he fell The man flipped and continued his fall, but Fell was yanked hard to the side At the sa out blue luxin, so she rebounded toward the wall Ironfist leaned crazily over to one side, but couldn’t run to the right because the Blackguards were crowded thick on the ledge Instead, he pivoted, put both of her feet in one hand, and extended that hand along the side of the ledge as both of the Blackguards on either side of hio of his belt lest it throw both theently, the e
His big fingers slapped on the lip, slipped, and then held The Blackguards pulled Fell in a them, and before Teia could blink, numerous luxin ropes were already around the commander With their help, he levered hihtest "They’re all dead," he said "But we need to hurry"
He’d been cale? Bloody flux!
The sun rose to full light as they jogged up the path When they neared the top of the path, Teia scouted ahead and saw that around the last bend, there was a stout wooden gate, ten feet tall, with sharpened spikes at the top In the paryl light, through saps, she could see that it was reinforced with iron, and there were four ate wasn’t sheer like the rest of the cliff they’d just traversed, but it was too steep to cliht she couldthe men stationed there, too
She had barely reported back when the cannons above began firing out on the water During the whole cli on the path and watching for booby traps or pitfalls or approaching soldiers that she’d barely looked out to sea Their vieas astounding Gorgeous: the sun barely up, the bay blue and deeper blue-green, the sails of the ships unfurled, and now thick clouds of s out from the broadsides as the Chromerian fleet tried to enter the bay There were only a few s the center of the Color Prince’s lines They fired back a volley
"Lem," Commander Ironfist said "Up front"
A slanced at her nonexistent chest, up to her eyes, away "Name’s Lem True name Will You know, Will to Willu that’s special about Lem isn’t that he’s crazy," Lem said "We’re all all sorts of crazy But Leoing to tell ain She couldn’t tell if he was being creepy or if he just never looked at people’s eyes
"Le in the service of the Blackguard Lem here believes rock is like butter, in front of hiood, because otherwise he’d probably be dangerous as all hell That’s what the trainers said See, Lerips in the rock for us, no problem Got a will that’d make Andross Guile weep like a little boy True naht," Teia said
Lem filled himself with blue luxin, then leaned over conspiratorially to Teia "There’s soet into the Blackguard?
He’s a valuable freak Likenumbers under his breath "Forty-one, fifty-three, forty-seven, fifty-nine, no, fifty-three, fifty-nine, sixty-one, seventy-one, no…"
A hammer of blue luxin shot from his hand and pierced the stone It stuck, a horizontal bar connected to a spike sunk deep into the stone The bar wouldon it to make sure there was no play, then took a deep breath He swept a hand down and eight more of the spikes leapt from his hands in order It would make an admirable ladder
Blue luxin--shot into rock Holy hells Just when Teia thought she couldn’t get any uards